...licence for advancing as true any theory which cannot be demonstrated to be actually impossible:— ' If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But 1 can find no such case.' Another of these assumptions is not a little remarkable. It suits his...

...impossible:— 'If it could I*.- demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not IxjssiMy have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But 1 can find no such cue.' Another of these assumptions is not a little remarkable. It suits his...

...one of glass, as the \voik? of the Creator are to those of man? Model of Transition. If it could bo demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case. No doubt many organs exist of which we do not know the transitional...

...selection." That in this Mr. Darwin is not misrepresented is evident from his own words before quoted : " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down/'* Also : " Every detail of structure in every living creature (making some little allowance for the direct...

...sudden modification in their structure." J " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organism existed which could not possibly have been formed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." || " Slight iluctuating differences in the individual suffice for the work of Natural Selection." §...

...for the work of Natural Selection."-}' Again : "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organism existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my * Animais und Plants wider Domestication, Vol. II.. p. 192. t Descent of Man, Vol. II., p. 370. THEORY...

...less-informed readers may well be staggered, unless they are more credulous than himself. Again he says, " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed...slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."t Remarkable reasoning this ! When he fails to prove his theory by facts he challenges his reader...

...the railway, wholly inexplicable on the theory of Descent,* but is explicable on the theory of * " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed...slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."—DAKWIX, Origin of Species, 5th ed. p. 227. In several passages insistence is made on this....

...slight successive variations ; it can never take a leap, but must advance by short and slow stages. If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." 17. That many animals possess peculiarities which, BO far as we can see, can be of no use to them in...

...been produced by the accumulation of slight modifications through natural selection. He says:— "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed...formed by numerous successive slight modifications [natural selection] my theory would absolutely break down."—Origin of Species, p. 146. How simple,...